Chapter 489

The other imperial princes, anyway unable to obtain a single spirit, were only too happy to see all these spirits kill themselves!

"Quick, stop them!"

The crown prince shouted to the divine armor soldiers using an amplification spell.

The divine armor soldiers no longer cared about their formation and rushed swiftly toward the wind spirits.

Lydia's eyes flashed with resolve; she raised her blade, ready to give the order.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, from the sky, a massive pillar of fire poured down, crashing into the divine armor soldiers!

The first few hundred divine armor soldiers were reduced to ash in less than a second, not even having time to scream!

Their armor, capable of withstanding powerful crossbows and high-intensity magic, also turned into molten iron within a second!

The temperature of this fire pillar was terrifyingly high!

"Boom!"

Immediately after, a second massive fire pillar poured down again, instantly annihilating hundreds more divine armor soldiers at the rear!

These divine armor soldiers owed their limited casualties to the narrowness of the road, which restricted how many could stand side by side—otherwise, a single strike would have killed far more!

"Boom!"

In the sky, fire pillars continued to rain down without pause.

The divine armor soldiers hadn't even begun to comprehend what was happening before they were vaporized one by one!

On Gaoshan, Lydia and thousands of wind spirits were all frozen in shock!

They had never imagined that, at their most desperate moment, someone would strike down upon them!

Watching the divine armor soldiers before them instantly turn to ash, these wind spirits felt a surge of relief after narrowly escaping death.

They all lifted their heads, and what first met their eyes was the enormous flame symbol on the flying ship above!

It was a flame burning with incredible intensity!

Merely from the symbol, one could feel the sheer might of that flame!

Fire was terrifying—in the forests, spirits never kindled flame, lest they ignite the woods.

But now, in the eyes of these thousands of spirits, that flame was breathtakingly beautiful, profoundly unforgettable—it pulled them back from utter despair, granted them new life, and showed them hope!

Thus, that flame symbol was imprinted deeply into their minds at nearly the same instant, becoming an unforgettable memory for the rest of their lives!

Only then did they notice, at the very top of the flame symbol, a girl in a white dress with a white veil over her face, her fingers dancing continuously.

The motion of her fingers was exquisitely graceful, as if she were playing a piano.

Yet what she played was a death melody.

Each flick of her fingers brought down a pillar of fire, delivering devastating blows to the warriors below!

Spirits disliked war and killing, but at this moment, these spirits found the girl's death melody utterly beautiful!

One could imagine that, without this girl, their best possible end would have been collective suicide!

And the worst outcome… they dared not imagine it!

"Aaaah, who is that? My divine armor soldiers, my divine armor soldiers!"

On another Gaoshan, the crown prince of the Zi Jin Empire screamed hysterically!

The thousands of divine armor soldiers he had spent years accumulating had been wiped out in mere moments by the girl on the flying ship!

Not even a single piece of divine armor remained!

The crown prince was going mad!

With rage overwhelming him, his eyes turned red!

"Lagun, what are you standing there for? Kill them all!"

At this moment, the crown prince, consumed by fury, lost all reason—he didn't care what these ten flying ships were, they had slaughtered his divine armor soldiers, and their only fate was death!

In the sky, the forbidden spell mage moved.

But as soon as he flew into his attack range, he suddenly sensed something, shuddered all over, turned deathly pale, and without regard for the crown prince's command, turned and fled!

Seeing this, the crown prince flew into a rage: "Lagun, how dare you defy my orders!"

Beside him, the fifth imperial prince, witnessing Lagun's reaction, felt an extremely ominous dread rising within him.

A forbidden spell mage!

A forbidden spell mage had fled!

Yes, without even the courage to fight—he had simply run away!

What did this mean?

The fifth imperial prince's heart trembled.

Then came an even more terrifying sight.

He saw a woman on one of the flying ships suddenly draw her bow, nock an arrow, and fire!

"Such a fluid motion!"

The fifth imperial prince couldn't help thinking.

Indeed, from drawing the arrow to releasing it, it took less than half a second—such fluid motion was beyond even the empire's greatest archer, wasn't it?

"Swoosh!"

Then the fifth imperial prince saw the arrow, faster than thunder can be heard, overtake Lagun several kilometers away and pierce him clean through!

Even as he saw this, the fifth imperial prince was still thinking: What an incredible range!

An arrow shot over several kilometers!

That range was simply terrifying.

But then, he finally grasped the critical point.

Then, his face "whooshed" ashen pale.

His body began to tremble uncontrollably.

The Fifth Imperial Prince vaguely sensed that they had probably provoked an existence they absolutely could not afford to provoke.

"Damn it, good riddance — letting you escape, you deserved to die!"

The Eldest Imperial Prince was probably driven mad with rage; seeing Laglern shot dead by an arrow, he actually failed to react.

"Huh? Fifth, what are you shaking for?"

The Eldest Imperial Prince noticed the Fifth Imperial Prince's abnormality.

"Big Brother, let's leave on your flying ship."

The Fifth Imperial Prince struggled to stop his teeth from chattering as he spoke.

"Leave? Why leave? We still have so many troops…"

The Eldest Imperial Prince had only just said this when a flash of red light swept through his eyes.

He quickly turned his head and saw, beneath Gaoshan, a colossal red mushroom cloud rising up.

"Boom!"

Immediately after, came a deafening explosion!

Immediately after, came the onrushing heatwave.

This heatwave was so terrifying that the Eldest Imperial Prince's hair instantly caught fire, and even his clothes caught fire.

And the surrounding forest had long since already burst into raging flames!

Every single tree was set ablaze in an instant!

The Eldest Imperial Prince's pupils dilated continuously.

That red mushroom cloud looked, quite frankly, excessively beautiful.

But at the center of that mushroom cloud was his army!

"Clack-clack-clack-clack!"

The Eldest Imperial Prince's teeth began to chatter.

"Clack-clack-clack-clack!"

Beside him, the Fifth Imperial Prince's teeth were chattering just the same.

"Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-whoosh!"

Immediately after, beside the Fifth Imperial Prince's ear, the sound of countless slender arrows piercing the air rang out once more.

He laboriously turned his head and saw boundless arrow rain falling upon his army.

His army was finished!

"Clack-clack-clack-clack-clack!"